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Monday, April 9, 2012

Outfox the Fox | A quilt and a giveaway

Hello and happy Monday morning! For those who celebrated, I hope you had a wonderful Easter Sunday and holiday weekend. We had gorgeous weather here in North Carolina, and I also had a couple of very productive sewing days. I'll have to share what I worked on this weekend on another day (no pictures yet!), but in the meantime I have a WONDERFUL quilt finish to share with you.

I recently completed this quilt, and it has immediately become one of my favorites. I've loved the Outfox the Fox quilt pattern by Lizzy House since she released it last year, and a few months back I had the idea to make one using the awesome Miscellany fabric line by Julia Rothman for Cloud 9 Fabrics.

I decided to use black fabric -- and a lot of it -- as my background fabric. This was completely new for me, since I usually default to white, off-white, or light grey when using a dominant background color. Black was the perfect choice to highlight the Miscellany prints. And, speaking of those prints, they're really too beautiful to chop up, which is why Outfox the Fox was the perfect pattern to show off those large-scale designs.

Just for fun, I added a few of the Miscellany scraps to my binding strip, and positioned them so that they'd run along the top edge of the quilt. It's an added bonus for the person laying under the quilt to catch a glimpse of the prints as he (or she, if I let someone else use it : ) pulls it up underneath his chin!

So, are you as big a fun of the big, bold, and modern Outfox the Fox pattern as I am? Well, today's your lucky day! Lizzy herself sent me an extra copy of the pattern to give away to a Quilt Dad reader, and I'll even throw in a charm pack of Lizzy's Outfoxed fabric line that I have on hand. Simply leave a comment on this post and let me know what fabric you'd love to make Outfox the Fox with, including your choice of background color. I'm curious to hear all of your fabric and color ideas!

I love your quilt but if I were to make mine, it would be Amy Butler's old line Daisy in Basil. Love the shapes and colors of the fabric. Background, I would stick to medium gray, or maybe Pepper. Too many choices.

Wow! I love your quilt and Lizzy's pattern. The black has my head trying to come up with fabrics....Yes, I've got it! Parson grey! The quilt would be sombre, but masculine ....I think. Maybe a pop of orange would be in order, maybe yellow if the orange looked too Hallowe'eny (yep it's a word)

This quilt is awesome. I'd love to try this pattern using my Kate Spain Terrain stack, and Kona Hibiscus (dark dark purple) as the background. I love your black background. The Outfoxed fabrics are so cute, I've been collecting a few cuts as I find them at my LQSs.

Thank you for the giveaway, and congrats on the quilt finish! The quilting pattern is really nice, too. Looks like roses had been sprinkled on the quilt. If I were to make this quilt, I'd use my stash and would choose hot pink and orange fabrics. A crazy combination that I'm itching to try. Charcoal for the background.

I love this quilt John! and I adore outfoxed....I'm in the middle of collecting it now! It's such a great line and the colorways are just beautiful, so I would def be using that for this quilt. I think....with the oranges and purples....I would probably pair it was kona baby pink....or maybe even a shade lighter, because I like the way those colors play off each other

I love this quilt. I think I would make the background fabric gray and use a combination of orange and blue prints. This would be a good opportunity to use some of my larger scale prints I have been hoarding for the right project.

I'm thinking Echo.......but who really knows til I take the first step? I love your black background. I think a nice Brick color might do it too.When are you gonna take the plunge and do your own quilting?????

Love this quilt pattern too and the black gives it a sophisticated touch! I love Good Fortune and have been looking for a pattern that would make it stand out - this could very well be the one! Thanks for sharing!

I really like the black/dark background you've used. I really want to make quilts for my grown boys, and i'm thinking this pattern would really work out nicely. As for the fabric - one of them *I think* has the black/white and maybe red thing going on. He likes very graphic things so I'd likely want to find black and white with maybe some red larger designs. My other son has tan/dark brown - so I could likely use red/rust/tan/brown kind of color way. (Oh, maybe blues/tans/browns would be nice!) Thanks for the post. Thanks for getting my creative juices flowing with the concept of this quilt for my boys.

I have liked that pattern for awhile but now I love it!I think it would be perfect for my son! (not too girly as he would say!) and the black! I don't know if I could do it but I'd sure like to try! or maybe I'd go with navy....

Your quilt turned out beautiful. I'm into greens, grey and navy at the moment, plus turquoise so I think I'd use those colours. Love the Lizzy House Geo Dot in Emerald - yum!! Haven't seen it here in the UK. Fingers crossed for me and thanks for the chance to win the pattern :)

Very nice quilt! The quilting by Bethany is fabulous too. I think the prints on the black background are terrific. Thank you for sharing it. Personally I probably couldn't handle anything that wonderful yet!

I love your black backgournd! My daughter wants a quilt with black and orange. I told her she needs to decide on one more colour to make a triad! I think this pattern would be very her! Simple and yet it pops!! I love yours! Well done

What a wonderful giveaway.....right now I have some outfoxed and I wasn't sure what to do with it. Love the fabric and this quilt pattern is just wonderful. Would love to try this out!!! Your quilt is beautiful!!!

Yes, I'm crazy about this pattern, and I love the colors you've used! I think I'd like to try it with a dark solid as well, and then do most of the center with solids, and just a couple prints sprinkled in.

Ooh.. I love your quilt! I have a FQ bundle of miscellany to use up, but I think I'd like to use Monsterz to make a quilt for my new nephew :) I'd pull a color from the collection to make the background and use the panel print from the line to make the backing :) thanks!

Oooh! I have a fat quarter bundle of Miscellany that I am wondering what I should do with! This quilt would also be lovely with some Amy Butler Lark fat quarters and a nice bright canary yellow backing. It would be so summery!

My goodness - choosing fabrics is always the hardest for me -too many possibilities. I love your quilt, though, with the so much black. Very modern! I think I would like to go with a variety of coppers, reds and grays with a touch of yellow. Background could be a darker gray. Sounds dreary, but I'll bet it would pop!

Love your quilt-you are pretty brave going with the black. While I love black & have used it for background, it is sooo hard to sew with (my eyes just don't see as well anymore). I have a wonderful concrete color from Sweetwater's Homecoming line that I bought yards & yards of. I would probably use that & some of my Reunion stash for this pattern. Thanks for the chance to win this.

Love your version, the black is stunning choice. I'd love to make this in Happy Mochi Yum Yum format the Zombie herself and use an orange background. Saw this combo at Sew Modern and it knocked my socks off!

Love that quilt! I'd say I'd have to make mine with Ana maria horner's loulouthi line. I love her bold designs. My background would have to be a deep purple, since that is my go to color!I love your blog. I just recently found it, so I am having fun getting to know you and your family!

I am in love with Hello Luscious and Salt Air. I think the more curvy lines of Salt Air would be great contrast to the squares of pattern- with Kona Navy. I am using that combination for a Schnibbles pattern right now. Hello Luscious would be lovely as well- again the more floral type design. Not sure on background colour. Maybe just straight up white because there is so much colour in the prints.

Hey Quilt Dad! I am a new quilter. I just started taking lessons at the local senior citizen center in town, although I'm only 26! I think I was made to quilt, because it gives me so much joy. Being that I am new, I have a very limited fabric stash. I do love boutique style fabrics and royal jewel tone fabrics against white so they pop! Thank you for the change to win.

I think this quilt would look really great with some 30s repro prints, and a really bright, out there background- maybe hot pink, or something around there. Old, new, and all over the place! Thanks for the chance to win!

What a great pattern! I like it with the black, but since we have a Siamese cat, it might not be the best color for cat hair:)

I am making a quilt right now with Hello Pilgrim and some DS Quilts prints. I am really digging the butterfly prints in blue and aqua, so I think this quilt would look great with those two prints and some cool blues.

I love what you've done with your quilt. Dramatic without being over the top. I'll have to keep a copy in my 'inspiration stash'. I have some Curious Nature coming that would look awesome in this pattern. Also have some Tula Pink and a couple others that, as you say, I hate to cut, that might be good. If I went with Curious Nature, I would want to audition against a charcoal. Thanks for the giveaway!

I love this pattern and the choice of colors you used--so bold! I'm a nature girl, though, and I love quilts that remind me of sunshine, so I would probably do oranges, yellows, and greens on a taupe or light gray background.

Love that pattern since I first saw it! I've been hoarding some Riley Blake Halloween fabric and would love to use it in that pattern. I would also use some dark fabric for the bakground, porobably Kona Coal or Kona Pepper.Terrific quilt, I love the fabrics, the design and the quilting!

I love the colours of your quilt - they're strong colours but definitely masculine. I am not sure what colours I would use if I made this quilt... colour for though! I love the quilting you did on this quilt, too!!

Oh, I adore the black background! And the quilting is just perfect. I am trying desperately to use up various bits from past projects, and so I'd probably cobble together a variety. I'd love to do a black & blue hued one for my son and a brown & orange hued one for my daughter!

Beautiful finish! I have to agree that black was the perfect choice. I would love to make one of these with Lark and use Kona Candy Green or Tangerine as the background. Both would make very lovely, but very different quilts.

I have some Zoology by Michael Miller that I am saving for a special project. It lends itself well to fussy cutting and pairing it with other Michael Miller fabrics would make a fun quilt. The background color would have to be the aqua blue that matches the sea colorway. I also have some old (very old) zebra stripe that coordinates well. I have already made a quilt for a friend using these fabrics and now I want one of my own.

Love your quilt! I haven't seen the fabric you used yet. Will have to look for it at the LQS. If I were to make this quilt, I would use the Vintage Modern fabrics and put a turquoise for the background! thanks for the fun!

My first reaction - yours is a manly quilt! Well, really for a man or woman who likes clean, clear lines and contrast. My variation might be Oakshott cottons with a solid navy background like fireworks in the night sky.

I have looked at that pattern many times and your quilt is wonderful using it. It is a lovely giveaway, thank you. I would love to make it with Habitat. And I am not sure about the back, I think I would pick a pink that works with but does not match the pinks or maybe a turquoise or blue that again picks up on but does not match the blues in the prints I have. Or maybe white, or grey.

I love the colors in your quilt! I'm so brand new to quilting, all the "fabric lines" are Greek to me...the only thing I've had my eye on so far is the Alexander Henry "Ghastlies" line. I love the line in Natural and pair it with a pink background.

This would be the perfect pattern for my very first quilt.shel704 at aol dot com

Wow! What a beautiful quilt you made. My son loves black and I love your quilt so I think I would use the same fabrics you chose: Miscellany fabric line for sure and with the black background! Thanks for the opportunity to win this giveaway.

This is a great quilt- and pattern. Let's see- there are a lot of choices in my stash (Amy Butler, Terrain, Taza) or I might have to go shopping (Curious Nature, Reunion). I think I would go with a color for the background.

Your quilt turned out awesome! Love it and the quilting is gorgeous. I've never made a quilt with a black background but now I'm inspired! I'd love to use Cosmos or Terrain using this pattern. I'm not sure of a background but I'm wanting to make an orange quilt as well as one with a purple background.

I absolutely adore Lizzy's prints and I think I'd dig out my Castle Peeps with some of the 1001 Peeps prints to combine with the Outfoxed, fussy cut it and try to arrange it to tell a story(forgot to add background fabric- Kona Ash or Espresso I think)Thanks for the fab giveaway!!ibs102(at)hotmail(dot)com

I loved this pattern when I first saw it on Lizzy's blog & I love the fabrics that you've used - such a great combination. I'd love to make this project using Outfoxed & Kona Snow background fabric. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.

I haven't seen this pattern before and I like it! I would use it with "Flock" by Thomas Knauer and a brown background or with The Quilted Fish's new line "Apple of My Eye" with a white background. Oh the possibilities! Thank you for this chance to win!

I think this is a great pattern! I'm loving Kona Ash for backgrounds now so that would be my background color. And I would love to use some pieces from Half Moon Modern if there is any still available to buy. I think the bright colors would just pop on the grey.

Wow-I really love your quilt! The black is wonderful! I think I would make this quilt with a mix of Denyse Schmidt fabrics--most of the ones with orange and/or fuschia in them. (a mix of Aunt Edna, Hope Valley and one other line..I think.) I am leaning toward Robert Kaufmans linen for quilters in Taupe for the background.

I would like to make Outfoxed in "Curious Nature" by David Butler. I love the earthy colour range and the geometric patterns. For the background I could use black, which is always a safe choice, although i would like to experiment with a deep midnight, or chocolate or rust or a range of dark greys used randomly across the background. Oh I think I'll make a series!!

I love the colors and fabrics you choose for this design! Currently I have a stash of fat quarters titled: Lawn Better Gnomes and Gardens by Heather DuPont. I think my background choice would be a woodsy brown. Thanks for posting pictures of your quilts!

believe it or not ever since i saw this post i've been trying to track down the original orange and purple fabric! those are the colors my daughter wants in a quilt. i think plain white for a background because any other color would be too overwhelming. thanks for the giveaway!!donna altierimadkat@tampabay.rr.com

I absolutely LOVE this quilt! Personally, I like the richness of the dark background with the busy prints.However, since I am the mother of 3 daughters, I would probably make this quilt in Summer House or Trade Winds by Lily Ashbury with the most subtle robin's egg blue print in the collection for the background.I also think it would be lovely in Verona with a swirly gray background.

Oooh. Your version with Miscellany is fabulous! I love that line, and Lizzy House, too! Hmm, I have a stack of the Ta-Dot prints that would be really fun in this design. I would probably use Kona Stone or Medium Grey with them, or maybe try to pick a solid that wasn't accounted for in the dots.

What a great pattern! Love the idea of using it for prints that are just to amazing to chop. That pattern would be awesome with some magenta, plum and lime floral prints I have. It would make a great throw in our living room (granny smith green walls....yeah, I love color.) I'd probably do a white/offwhite background, although I do usually love the contrast with black.

As modern as your fabric choices look I can imagine it with a bright pink background with the squares being brights shades of pinks and purples........just perfect for a little granddaughter. thanks for the chance to win and happy sewing

Wow what a great give away!! I raise Wire Fox Terriers and this would be a great pattern for me. I just purchased Flea Market Fancy for the first time and would love to use it for this project with a Kona White background to make the colors pop!!

Oh I really like that fabric. Your pictures make it look like plus signs, but the more you look at it you (I mean I) realize they are not all the same fabric in one plus. The pattern looks like tetris - which is a game my Mom loves and so I thought of her. Anyway, I think I would do a bright print for the background, and then use solids for the pieces. HHmmm, awesome.

Thanks for the chance. I think this pattern might be good for Tailor Made flannels - and a solid Kona background (black, red, white, or grey). This would definitely give variation in texture. Plus, I have the flannel already. I've never made a black and white quilt before so would be a challenge. Plus, flannel works better if pieces are larger too. alternate email mlwright29(at)hotmail(dot)com

I am probably too late for the giveaway but I wanted to tell you anyway that I absolutely love this pattern and the fabric choices that you made for it. It. Is. Stunning! It's really rather sophisticated and modern and the quilting itself enhances the whole thing. I guess what I am trying to say is ..... Wow!!!!! Keep up the great quilting!

I love the Outfoxed Pattern and the fabrics you chose for your beautiful quilt. I would dearly love to win this special pattern and some of your fabrics. They are exactly what I would use, but on a slate or ash gray background. The quilting really finishes it so beautifully! Perfect! Thank You for this great giveaway. Very gratefully yours, Luba